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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

While it can be frightening to think differently, doing so has helped him make Veeva the biggest vertical SaaS success story of all time. While this talk really shows his love of thinking about the bigger picture – this is the Strategy stage after all – Peter actually spends 90% of his time on execution. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

Customer Success was barely a discipline when Anthony joined Gainsight, but thanks to the rise of SaaS and subscription-based business models more generally, where retaining and providing value to your existing customers is a non-negotiable, the category has exploded. Prospective customers have to be educated. Investors might not get it.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with G2 and Gorgias — September 27, 2019

SaaStr

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Ryan made his way into the world of SaaS from Sydney, Australia and came to be one of the world’s leading CMOs with G2 today. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Pssst Loving our podcast content? What can they learn from each other? Missed the session?

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SaaStr Podcast #344 with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin: “16 Tips To Increase The Odds You Get Funded”

SaaStr

You know that actually you can inbound to a top VC, at least seed VCs, at least early stage VCs, and they will probably read it. Jason Lemkin: I have been looking at a lot of pitches from founders over the last week or two. And some of them truly are amazing. A bunch are terrible, are simply terrible, and most are in the middle.

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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Dannie : Hi. Kevin : Great to be here on the kick off session for SaaStr 2019. My name is Kevin Egan. I manage North America sales for Slack, and I’m joined by my colleague Dannie Herzberg, who runs mid-market sales in our sales development team. Kevin : We will really be focused on one big framework. I joined Oracle in 1995. Following the-.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Early in my AE career, the company I worked for was acquired and we were all told we had to go to another state for an entire month of training. Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. It has little to do with the work itself, and more to do with the societal pressure, norms, and bias that exist in 2021. Anything less is failure.

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